Fresh Table Cafe

great breakfast options. Flatbreads and veggie scramble are amazing.

Meatloaf MONDAY are you kidding me? Listen this is not your mothers meatloaf this is delicious! I think this is some of the best I have ever had in my life! The place is very clean and the staff is very friendly! Come on MONDAYS and try the meatloaf my god it’s so good!

Well its been a few years so I thought I would give it a try again. Asian crunch salad and a 12oz soup. $ 13.19. The salad is good but it was soaked in dressing. The soup is decent but clam chowder should be thick and this soup is so runny nothing sticks to the spoon and its mostly just white sauce hardly any potatoes or clams. For $ 13.00 I was expecting better.

great fresh food:) and almost most everything is made to order and can be customized. Short business hours though (7 – 3:30) beautiful bar setup, I will be back!

Decent but a little overpriced, nothing special.

Fresh Table serves a mix of lunch meals as well as breakfast items. I’ve never had breakfast here, so this is entirely a lunch review.
The lunch menu is basically a mix of a number of cold cut sandwiches, grilled items including different varieties of hamburgers and salads. Of these, I’ve tried a few of the salads and found them okay, but overpriced: you’re looking at $ 4 – 6 for a pretty small salad. The sandwiches suffer a similar fate; I’ve found the ingredients to be respectable, but you’re paying a bit of a premium for a smaller sandwich. My favorite is the Italiano: it’s a mix of salami, ham, onions and pepper pesto sauce. I actually enjoy the sandwich, but I’m still a little hungry afterwards. I’ve learned the lesson to pair the snack with desert from Starbucks next door.
Overall, it’s decent food although it’s probably a little bit of a value trap.

Do I really have to give them any stars?
First they kicked out a reasonably priced greasy spoon and opened up the «Fresh Nasty» and moved in the «Blue Water Taco Hell» next to it. Turns out they are owned by the same yahoos.
The name is Fresh Table and the slogan is No plastic food. «Do you use real eggs for your breakfast? We use real eggs. Do you crack the eggs or pour them out of a carton that says ‘Egg Product’? They come from a carton but they are real eggs.» Sorry, IMO «fresh» eggs at least have to be cracked.
Pretty sure the burger I ordered for lunch was fresh because it got up and walked off the table when I got back to my office on the 15^th floor.
I go back occasionally hoping to get lucky but I never do.
I’m sure they will do alright despite the bad reviews because there is nothing better within a 5 block radius of the Met Park buildings.
If you are in the area and think it might be a good place to stop for a quick bite, just eat your $ 10 or go hungry.

In my original review of this place, I said I probably would not return. But, I do work across the street, so I have returned. Each time with optimism which I now know is false hope.
Take today: I ordered a grilled veggie flat bread sandwich. Veggies were fine. Boring, like the rest of the stuff they make, but fine. But there is a sauce (red pepper pesto) they put on, which tastes kinda good but has so much oil it is sickening. The actual flat bread was so soaked in some other kind of oil (maybe from the grill?) that it was dripping everywhere. I could not even pick this «sandwich» up to eat it because it was grease-​logged. Disgusting.
Last week: I ordered a soup and half sandwich combo. 8oz of soup (which is like a few spoonfulls…) and a turkey sandwich. The guy making it asked me what I wanted (again and again), and I responded each time. Then, at the end of it all, he got it wrong. Sandwich was fine, but like I said before, boring. The «tomato basil» soup I ordered did not taste like basil and definitely not like tomato. It was like a salty squash soup. Weird. Half a boring sandwich and a few spoonfulls of (weird) soup for $ 7? Absurd.
These are only a couple of my experiences. I never have had a meal worth the money there. Their food is boring, they don’t make it well, and it is WAY too expensive. And I blame myself for continuing to eat there. Shame on me.

The first time I went here, my biggest complaint was the prices – $ 7 for what was essentially a small plate of lettuce – but everything else was decent. Definitely decent, certainly not good.
The second (and officially my final) time, the entire experience was crappy. There was one person ahead of me in line, yet I stood in line for about 10 minutes before my order was taken. I then waited about 20 minutes for them to grill my sandwich, which would’ve been fine had it taken 20 minutes to cook, but the thing was definitely burnt. I then stood there waiting for a cashier to ring me up, and after a miserable 40 minutes, I finally got to go back to work. The sandwich itself was burnt on the outside and soggy on the inside, so I took a few bites and threw the rest out.
There aren’t many restaurants in this area, but all of them are definitely better than this place.

Okay, so they haven’t been open for more than two weeks, but still. When you’re not crowded, I’d expect better service.
I went there this morning for breakfast. Nothing complicated. Just a small cup of oatmeal. There were two other customers in the store, one had ordered and the other was waiting to order. There were six people working (four up front, two in the back). The girl behind the counter took the person’s order in front of me and then left me standing there.
So I waited and watched. Apparently it takes three people to make two orders of scrambled eggs and toast. They were just standing around chatting and looking at me and not taking my order.
Five minutes later, someone comes back from break. He washes his hands and goes over to the three people chatting at the other end of the counter. He looks at me but doesn’t say anything. Another two minutes and I’m standing there, staring at them, tapping my fingers and the guy looks at the three girls and asks «Has she been helped?» The girls look at each other and shrug so he calls over to me, «Have you been helped?»
Not helped. Not acknowledged until I’d already been standing there for seven minutes, in plain view. (I timed it). I say, «No» so he calls again from the end of the counter, «What can I get for you?»
Oatmeal. Small cup. Simple and easy, no prep needed, just a ladle into a cup. $ 2.14 and then I’m on my way, eight minutes later.
I think I’d rather pay twice as much for yogurt at Starbucks next store than wait here again. But I’ll give them another chance. Sometime.